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﻿Ashley Garcia
October 4, 2014
Workplace Romance
It is natural for two people to develop strong , romantic feelings towards each other especially when the two people see each other often. However, there are several ethical landmines afoot. A person’s moral character is defined through their experiences. An ethical dilemma I was faced with was whether or not it was ethical to date a co-worker. When considering the best way to resolve this ethical dilemma one may take into consideration if...

﻿Conventions in movies
Romance movies are often combined with other genres in order to invite a larger set of audience. The most common combination is romantic comedies, which are also known as chick flicks. Romance films are usually aimed at the female audience, however combining this genre with comedy allows some male interest, meaning a larger amount of viewing and a higher profit for the producers.
Setting is the most important convention in romantic comedies. It can be the way of...

The film Casablanca was released in 1942 in the setting of Casablanca, Morocco. Initially, I expected this film to be a typical romantic wartime drama involving a man and a woman torn apart by differing political views. I also expected a very simple love story involving one dimensional characters and somewhat superficial dialog. Lastly, like many of the older romantic films, I expected a happy ending with the two main characters living happily ever after. I can safely say that this was no...

Medieval Romance played a big role in idealizing Chivalry. It mostly focuses on the hero and his noble deeds. The story,'' Federigo’s Falcon,'' was written in the 1350’s in Florence, Italy by Giovanni Boccaccio. ''Le Morte D'Arthur'' was written in the1450's in England by Sir Thomas Malory. Both Ferdrigo and Sir Lancelot have strong chivalric qualities and are seen as heroes in both but today chivalry is no longer existent due to the changes of our lifestyle.
Medieval romance usually idealizes...

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All Romance Essays

If a relationship between a supervisor and a subordinate or between coworkers ends on a sour note, one of the employees may claim that it wasn’t consensual, that he was sexually harassed[->2], or that she was retaliated[->3] against if she receives a poor performance review from her former paramour. In 2008, more than 13,867 sexual harassment claims were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) [->4]
Maintain an antinepotism policy
promulgated antinepotism policies, which...

The Ballroom of Romance
The author of “The Ballroom of Romance,” William Trevor uses the main character, Bridie’s, third person narration to exploit a first-person point of view by using free indirect, which adds the effect of irony. This short story uses short lines to express to the reader the thoughts that Bridie has about romance in her life.
The character Bridie is the narrator of her own story; since the story opens with her and ends with her using free indirect there are many...

Workplace Romance
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
Workplace romance exists when two members of the same organization develop a relationship with mutual attraction. Those who develop workplace romances may cause damages to morale and productivity in the workplace. Along with this, businesses and companies are still confused at whether or not they should interfere in the romantic relationship. If...

It is not morally acceptable for employers to make generalized rules against dating in the workplace. Such rules violate the employee’s personal rights and may act against a company’s best interests. There are morally and legally acceptable exceptions, however, when specific romantic relationships, such as those between supervisors and subordinates, are likely to create a financial and legal liability for a company, and hamper the company from conducting business. In these cases, it would be...

Romance, everyone wants it but others fear it, for it may show people a side of them that they do not wish to share. In her short story "Not a Good Girl", Perri Klass' main character, the narrator is a successful Immunologist speaking at a conference and has what she calls a "two-night stand" with Eric, an attendee. During her description of how her weekend was, small details of romance wishes start to appear.
The narrator, the woman, appears to be a career-goal oriented person; well, at...

Modernization of romance elements
in “Chivalry” by Neil Gaiman
In Neil Gaiman’s short story “Chivalry”, an elderly woman finds and buys the Holy Grail in a thrift shop to use it as a decorative element in her house. At the same time, a knight from the Round Table is in the quest of finding this sacred object of God. This short story contains many elements of romance, such as the religious quest, love and adventure and courtly and chivalric life. By modernizing romance, Gaiman suggests that...

DB Unit 2 Historical Foundations
Common Characteristics
Courtly love is characterized by the poetry of the troubadours in southern France which originated in in the late 11th c. Its ennobling effect on the male lover who assumes a subservient position in relation to the beloved, of the woman loved, and certain codes of conduct, whether implicit or explicit, that guide the lover in his amorous pursuit (COURTLY LOVE2012). After rereading the poem several times and understanding why she is...

Giulia Nunnari
Films Of Ang Lee
Farrah Qidwai
04/17/2013
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain displays all the traditional characteristics of a romantic tragedy or a Western film, but upon its release it failed to be labeled as such. It was instead placed in the “gay and lesbian” film category. While obviously there is no harm in being labeled a “gay” film, it does distract from the purpose of the film, which is to show the touching story of these two characters. The film...

Cyber-Romance
Rachel Ivancic
Thomas University
Cyber Romances or social relationships are connections developed by two or more people involving constant communication and interaction. The majority of people, who are involved in online romances, usually end up exploring these ventures offline. The budding of these interactions are when people find new contacts after accessing the net and social network, cf. (Wellman & Gulia, 1999). New relationships that occur online are often...

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Romance (heroic literature)
As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest. Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but...

﻿Impact of Romance Fiction on Society
Humans are a sentimental race, they require love to live a fulfilling life. Love stories like Romeo Juliet, etc. have inspired us. Romantic Fiction has been in existence since times immemorial. The popular romance novel is a story of two individuals with emphasis on romantic love and their subsequent relationship, complete with a happy ending. Oscar Wilde’s famous words “Life imitates art,” forces us to acknowledge that fiction shapes our lives. We are...

Keller Graduate School of Management-Devry
Conflict Resolution in office romance
Professor: Charles Desjardins
GM570- Managing conflict in the workplace
11/12/11
Conflict Resolution in office romance
Conflict is inevitable. It is a normal way of life. How we as individuals perceive each other depends on our ability to effectively resolve problems and how we cope with managing change. Some of us are unable to adapt to change therefore, it is expected that conflict will occasionally occur....

American Novel as Romance
There are two types of novels: the realistic or British novel and the romance fiction or American novel. The romance novel is a literary genre and the native tradition of the American novel. One of the basic differences between English and American literature is that the latter is constantly reassessing and reconstituting romance within the novel. It is said that romance signifies besides the obvious picturesque and heroic, an assumed freedom from the ordinary...

Romance in “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter”
“The Horse Dealer's Daughter” by D. H. Lawrence could be described as a story in which boy meets girl. Its plot on the surface bears a resemblance to that of any number of traditionally romantic stories. This story is about a boy saving a girl from drowning, sees something in her that he’s never seen before, and at the end of the story asks her for her hand in marriage. But we will soon see, there is nothing distinctive about Lawrence's story, his...

﻿Haley Cross
Mrs. Neff
LA9G3
8 March 2014
The Great Allusion Hunt
The reference to Shakespeare’s work I’m using is the song “The Sharpest Lives” by My Chemical Romance. The song itself describes a story about a drunk lovesick guy that lusts over a pretty girl and asks to spend the night with her. In “The Sharpest Lives,” part of the lyrics state, “You’re the one that I need; I’m the one that you loathe” (MCR). This directly alludes to the story of Romeo and Juliet because the singer of...

The Quest for Romance, Riches, and Power in “Cinderella”
Cinderella is often read and remembered as a tale about a girl who loses a glass slipper at a king’s ball, and the prince sets out to find the mystery girl to marry her. However, after reading the version included in Grimm’s Fairy Tales, I found that there is much more to the story than that by looking at it from different perspectives. In Maria Tatar’s An Introduction To Fairy Tales, the principle in her essay that I chose to...

How Rebecca Reflects and Subverts the Conventions of the Romance Genre
“‘I’m invariably ill-tempered in the early morning. I repeat to you, the choice is open to you. Either you go to America with Mrs Van Hopper or you come home to Manderly with me.’
‘Do you mean you want a secretary or something?’
‘No, I’m asking you to marry me, you little fool.’”
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is a fine example of the romantic genre as it reflects certain conventions such as the hero and heroine’s...

O Henry
William Sydney Porter, also known as O Henry was an excellent writer and very talented in writing surprise endings to all of his stories ("O Henry"). He wrote about average people living in New York City, this influenced the settings of most his stories by giving the reader a visual of the senses he wrote about. In the stories "A Romance of a Busy Broker" and "A Service of Love" which were written by O Henry, both are influenced by O Henry's life and talents. Also used in his stories...

20-10-2013
“Romance in The Air”
Romance can be a very tricky thing. When it is experienced, it becomes something that we want more of. Why is that you may ask? Simply because we like things that make us feel good about ourselves, and lets face, romantic love does a good job of that. True love and romantic love does exist. It might be a different time and era now, however, along with time changes, romantic love also does evolve as well. Looking back in time, we see the cliché acts of...

A. Introduction: Write an introduction that introduces the themes of courtly love and chivalry; also,
define satire and its purpose. Finally, end with a thesis statement which indicates your purpose.
Your thesis should focus on how chivalry and courtly love can be satirized. MUST BE 5-7 sentences.
MUST HAVE a thesis statement at the end of the paragraph. (many points will be lost if either of these
are missing)
B. Body Paragraphs #1 & #2: Focus this paragraph on chivalry,...

The genre of medieval romance is a genre with many requirements. The foremost and most obvious ones being that a movie must be romantic and it must be set in the Middle Ages. Other requirements for content include, aimless wandering, spontaneous fighting and the list goes on. I think for a movie to be a “medieval romance” it only has to have romance and be set in the middle ages. However if it fulfills any other criteria it helps.
The movie “A Knights Tale” is strange fit with medieval romance...

Yvain or The Knight with the Lion: The Introduction of Literary Strengths
There are few novels today that possess the adventure which takes place throughout Yvain (aka The Knight with the Lion). Chrétien’s use of structure in this poem has surely influenced the modern day novel. Yvain was one of the first books to introduce the genre of Chivalric Romance, which many authors still mimic today. The genre capturing this tale clearly defined literature thereafter and was the beginning of a new era...

Argument for the use of consensual relationship agreements (CRAs) in my current (or future) workplace
Consensual Relationship Agreement (CRA) is a contract that both employees involved a romantic relationship sign to acknowledge that their relationship is voluntary and that they will abide by the policies of the company regarding anti-harassment and anti-discrimination. (Hellriegel & Slocum ,2011). Office romance should be addressed in a more constructive and professional way just like...

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What is courtly Love? Courtly love has to do with love over someone or something that has you in a daze, that can’t see what really is going on. Some of the characteristics for courtly love are; the lover cannot eat or sleep, He lives in fear of his beloved’s scorn or of offending her, He cares for nothing but that which will please his beloved. Some of the principles courtly love has are: Married love is oxymoronic; marriage is assumed to be a loveless institution primarily good for...

The Canterbury Tales
AP Literature & Composition
October 7, 2009
A fabliau is aptly categorized as a scandalous tale meant to satirize the bourgeois through the depiction of bourgeois characters. This is the genre Chaucer writes “The Miller’s Tale,” from his The Canterbury Tales, in so he can distinguish the social class levels of the people on the pilgrimage. Chaucer shows us the differences by paralleling then transforming certain aspects of this fabliau with the same elements of the...

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CHARACTER ANALYSIS
(FLORANTE AND LAURA)
I. Florante at Laura
Florante and Laura are the main characters of the great metrical romance of arguably the greatest Filipino poet, Francisco Balagtas. Florante is the son of Duke Briseo and Princess Floresca of Albania and the main protagonist of the romance. Laura is the daughter of King Linceo of Albania and the love interest of Florante and is later married to him. This is a package deal, because they can’t stand alone on their own for...

﻿Romeo and Juliet: Assignment 2 – Act 2
Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is like a beautiful rose filled with sharp thorns.
The simile that compares Romeo and Juliet’s relationship with a gorgeous rose filled with thorns is a superlative interpretation of the love between Romeo and Juliet. A rose looks elegant and beautiful from a distance, but when one tries to hold it, they can feel the sharp thorns penetrating against their hands and can recognise the hidden bitterness of the rose. Similarly,...

﻿Tyisha Edwards
April 27, 2015
ENGL 2341 1001
Knight’s Tale
The story The Knight’s Tale tells of two brothers, Palamon and Arcite, who fall in love with the same woman. The movie A Knights Tale released in 2001 is about a peasant-born man, William Thather who went on an expedition to become a knight and joined tournament jousting; something he is determined to win in and become prodigious legend. Throughout his journey, Thather wins the heart of a beautiful woman named Jocelyn.
These...

English Composition
October 8, 2012
Pop Culture Passion
What's the best part about dating? The rush of getting to know a new person? The hope that it will lead to something more lasting? For some people it's the dream to find their true love and have them sweep them off their feet. For others it's finding a person who doesn't mind a more casual relationship. Most of the time, they return home only to think about what might have happened if their life went as well as the scripted ones they...

Brianna Efaw
English Comp II
Evaluation
Happily Ever After
I am evaluating the movie The Notebook directed by Nick Cassavetes and written by Nicolas Sparks. It features the perfect couple, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, who have a steamy romance throughout the movie. The couple goes through real life situations, ups and downs in their relationship, and end up together in the end of it all. It portrays the perfect romance with a twist viewers don’t see coming.
To be a good romance film,...

The Purpose of Don Quixote
Each author has a point of view from which he or she invents and create his or her own
characters and adventures. Some novels are written in first person narratives, but Cervantes, Don
Quixote is from an omniscient point of view who can see into each character and depict past and
future events at each point in the narrative, which would appear to some as though the story
actually happened.
Don Quixote is supposed to be a history and thus gives...

Ice-Candy Man is the central figure in the novel as the action revolves around him. All the important incidents are inspired by his action in the main plot of Ayah-Masseur and Ice-Candy Man's love triangle. All the other characters are passive as compared to him and remain flat whereas he is a round character undergoing changes from the beginning to the end of the novel. But still we can't declare him to be the hero of the novel as most of the action arising from him is wicked and treacherous....

The purpose of this film pamphlet is to influence and persuade as much people as people to watch the film. The pamphlet also briefly describes what the film is going to be about. This pamphlet attempts to do these things by visual, layout and language features to achieve its purpose.
A visual feature that helps to achieve its purpose is colour which is all over the film pamphlet. Colours may be used to create a feeling or mood depending on the context. In this particular film pamphlet, the...

“The Tempest is more than romance, for its characters exceed the roles of villains and heroes, some of them becoming villains and heroes…The Tempest belongs not only to the world of romance, but also to the period of colonialism, written as it was in the early stages of the European exploration and conquest of the New World” (Mowat and Werstine). Mowat and Werstine’s idea that The Tempest is both a romantic novel and expresses colonialism is shown through the master mind of the story’s plot...

﻿PUPPY LOVE or TRUE LOVE?
(Reaction Paper about Romeo and Juliet)
Name: Jowyne Kate G. Calaycay
Year & Course: BSBA MM 4-1
Subject Code: LITE 1023
Professor: MR. Jeric D. Arguelles
Date: February 9, 2015
Since I before exist on this world, the legend of Romeo and Juliet touches the heart of every lovers. They serve as the role model of truelove and sacrifice. A fairytale that even had a tragic ending, still consider as a happily ever after. No one can separate them even the...

1. One of the themes for the movie “Titanic” is that love can overcome differences in two people. Jack made his way onto the grand R.M.S. Titanic by luck, winning his ticket in a game of poker. Rose, on the other hand, comes from a rich family that could afford to pay for first class tickets onto the ship. Despite this, and the opposition Rose’s mother has towards the relationship, Jack and Rose fall helplessly in love. Jack is also a carefree guy that lives day by day, taking on what may come....

If nothing else, the Cannonball Read is teaching me that the more I care about a book, the harder it is for me to write about it. In the light of recent personal events, I was having a hard time delving into Jane Eyre's love story without my own romantic baggage weighing my interpretation down. At the very least, I can still say that I bristle whenever someone compares the Twilight series to Charlotte Bronte's best known novel. However, I didn't want to spend the review going on and on about how...

When we first see Jesse in Before Sunrise, he is brash and open, but also freshly wounded by love. Despite winning Celine over with the story of his grandmother's ghost, the younger Jesse is sceptical to the point of cynicism at times, blithely dismissing the inexplicable or the uncertain. However, in Before Sunset Jesse appears, in contrast to Celine, happy enough, married with a child and a modestly successful novel under his belt. There is something more upward-looking in the Jesse of Before...

The boy that I felt the most sympathy for in The History Boys would have to be Posner. The portrayal of his character compared to that of the other boys is entirely different. Throughout the play, Posner is shown to be an outsider; "too young" to understand most things, and even to be included in Hector's inappropriate behaviour.
It is evident from the start that Posner has feelings towards Dakin, however Dakin's behaviour towards Posner is far from romantic, hence we can sense that he doesn't...

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Based on what you read in the poem, describe the relationship between the speaker and the “you” in the poem. How important was the relationship to the speaker? Support your response by referencing directly to the poem.
In her poem “Since You” the poet Dionne Brand, has expressed a very profound romantic relationship between her speaker and the “you” in the poem. She has also revealed that the relationship was the most important thing in her speaker’s life. Dionne Brand makes these views...

Jason's Lyric
Fastasy on the Bayou
Lashell Marrow
Eng 225: Intro to Film
Instructor: Sarah McDonald
Date: December 13, 2012
The film I chose to write about is Jason's Lyric. The scene from I picked is called "Fastasy on the Bayou" from the film Jason's Lyric. This film is a romantic film and a romantic part. I will be talking about the artist involvement in the film's production. Also, I will be talking about how these artist make these...

﻿Sonata for harp and bicycle
İt is a story from Joan Aiken. She wrote this story by her life experiences. I love this essay it is so romantic. there are two main characters ms golden and jason ashgrove. they are in love with each other. ı wish ı had someone who likes me like jason. lallalalanfjksahjekhgıuos uısoh jknbvd fdıogh klgnds bd gfb jkkj h fgjtyujoykjh jgfcjdgjgyrtjkkhgnmvbjhtfuj gfjtıyıuykbnklfc fdl rgjrkdlgtrodkb dgjkdflhjıotdgöçd ldfljgdlklg şdfklşgjkdfljgıotpşdk lgdop odf...

The story, Romeo and Juliet is a story about unconditional love between two teenagers from opposing families. Throughout the story, they face troubles to try to be together while secretly expressing their love for one another. They risk everything to be together and in the end, would rather die than live apart. I have chosen a song for each act of Romeo and Juliet that I believe relates to the act in the closest way, I chose the songs based on the lyrics of them, and how I think they relate to...

The Plot Structure
The short film “Selfie” is set in a square in the US, on that very special Valentine day.
The film started with a young man sitting by himself, surrounded by countless couples who were happily celebrating their loves. At that very moment, he spotted a girl who might be just as lonely as he was, because she, after asking a girl to take her picture and being refused, eventually took a selfie. However, behind those bright eyes and that great smile, she wasn’t so strong and...

How the Wall of Jericho Falls
It Happened One Night set the place for the “screwball” comedy, the witty and romantic clash of temperaments between a man and a woman mismatched in both personality and social position. Through one of the greatest romantic comedies in film history, Frank Copra shows the outlandish nature of the rich and the nature of man being the controller in relationships as well as in society. It is the reversal of the Cinderella story, a modern tale with light hearted sex...

﻿September 22, 2014
Word count: 1,342
The Fault in Our Stars: A Story of Little Infinities
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” –John Green
Like any good book, The Fault in Our Stars is the kind of movie that should be experienced by all. It is a romantic comedy drama, based on the best-selling novel by award-winning...

The evolution of love in Hollywood Cinema; the love affair and its portrayal
The romance genre of Hollywood films has evolved throughout the decades to match the societal norms in which they were created. American society’s ideologies of romance and love the time in which seen through the film’s narrative structure, plot, the protagonists, and costumes. All of which are enhanced, in some way, by the setting of the scene and film technologies used to tell the narrative. A contrast can be...

The hunger and humor of Algernon
When Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest he gave birth to a wonderful character named Algernon Moncrieff. In this essay we will see how the appetites of this character add to the humor of this play. To analyze this we will look at his character traits. Algernon's traits of gluttony, dishonesty, romance and wit hive us delightful humor throughout the play.
As a glutton, Algernon puts his appetite first and people second. In the beginning of the...

﻿The balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet occurs just after Romeo leaves the Capulet party to go find Juliet. He climbs a wall bordering the Capulet property and leaps down into the Capulet orchard. Benvolio and Mercutio follow Romeo to the orchard but leave under the assumption that Romeo does not want to be found. In Act 2 Scene 2 Romeo hides in the orchard under Juliet’s balcony, expressing his love for her to him self as she does the same about him, until their thoughts join and they begin to...

﻿Khatira Sarbaz
Eng. 122
09/28/2014
I am probably the only person on this planet that cant figure out the significance of love and the forever lasting happiness that it bring along with the exclusive pain that secretly traumatize us to the brink of suicide. Love in itself is something no one can ever get a clear understanding off without confusion or frustration. There is a very good possibility that I have been completely brainwashed as a result of watching numerous romantic films and...

Love and Lust
In every intimate relationship the partners have two choices of emotion; to either be in love or lust. According to Merriam-Webster (2010) love is, “a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties” and it states that lust is “an intense or unbridled sexual desire” (para. 1). In the poems “Cherrylog Road” by James L. Dickey and “Leaving the Motel” by W.D. Snodgrass secrets of love and lust are expressed through the eyes of the lovers.
In the poem...

Juliet goes through a wide range of emotions in Act 2 Scene 2. At first, she sighs and says, "ay me" showing that she is wistful, dreamy and obviously thinking about Romeo. Juliet gets annoyed with the whole situation as she is thinking aloud to herself about how unfortunately she is a Capulet and Romeo is a Montague.
"Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou will not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
This shows her desperation and frustration with the...

In what ways and to what extent is Chaucer's Knight's Tale appropriate to its teller, "a verray parfit, gentil knycht?Sophie KingChaucer's Knight's Tale is a story in which the courtly ideals of the chivalric knight are questioned. The narrator of the story, a knight himself, tells us about the noble Theseus and his rule over Athens. Theseus is appropriate to the description "a verray parfit gentil knycht" as much as the narrator himself but we come to question the perfection of both as the...

‘’Eleven minutes “– Paulo Coelho
It took many years gruelling quest before I found author whose style of writing is natural and real. Paulo Coelho is my favorite writer and like nobody else knows a way how to grab my attention. He is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. His books have been translated in 71 languages. Critics identify him with phenomenon of mass culture. He is rated among the best writers of all time. For me he became a true authority and I dare say that for many also. I read...

﻿Romancing the Brick wall in Pausch’s Heart
When I read the pages 57 – 79 in Pausch’s (2008) The Last Lecture, I was surprised and impressed by his expression to his great wife. Even though he continued to love his wife, Jai, he sometimes felt her to get over such obstructions as a big wall and formidable things. He wrote, “The most formidable brick wall I ever upon in my life was just five feet, six inches tall, and was absolutely beautiful. But it reduced me to tears, made me reevaluate my...

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PARA SA HOPELESS ROMANTIC
“Para sa Hopeless Romantic” by Marcelo Santos III, published in February 14th 2013 by Lifebooks, is a novel composed of 5 love stories of people who embark on a romantic search of their own happy ending. There are Rebecca, Nikko, Ryan, Maria and Jackie. Each one has their own love story to tell. One character is afraid to love again; the other is hoping to find love. Another character is trying to forget while the other one is longing to reunite with a former...

The Knight's Tale, the story of two knights that fight for the love of a woman they do not know, and The Miller's Tales, the story of three men trying to win the heart of one woman, are two tales that share similar story lines and themes that include courtly love and chivalry. The themes in the two tales at times seem to be very satirical throughout the stories, especially The Miller's Tale; however, the presentations of the satirical themes in each story have a different approach from one...

Eric Congdon
An analysis of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet cxxx (130)
Sonnet cxxx
By William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red, than her lips red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damasked, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I...

Music is such a powerful art form. One can take music written by others to tell the story of one’s life. In my case I have many different playlist on my personal media player, used for carious occasions and reasons. But music that can be described as journaling my life can be separated very simply. The songs central message, what is it that the artist is singing about. The second determination is based solely on the uniqueness of the song type. My media player contains essentially an intimate...

Hour
Me and my one true love Anna have been in love for many years, since we were thirteen. Now at the minor age of 18, are feelings have grown vastly for one another. We spend only an hour each day, before sun down, Together. We always settle to meet at the same place. It beholds no name, yet we meet there as its scenery is of a rare encounter. its golden brown trees, and luxurious pure green grass can only be described as bespoke beauty.
Various couples spend time there to be romantic...

Mara Kate V. dela Cruz
3-St. Simon
“A walk to remember”
Film Analysis:
A. Question for discussion:
1) Why do you think the movie is entitled “a walk to remember?”
* It is entitled a walk to remember because landon never forget Jamie until the end of their love even Jamie has a “leukemia”
2) Described how Jamie and Landon started their love story?
* It is Jamie and Landon love story and it is centered on lando’s prov.their love was so strong that even when faced...

May 15, 2013
English
Thesis and Outline: Topic 4
Intro
• Aldonza finds it hard to love because no one lover her back. However this changes when she meets Don Quixote
• Using his charm and love she changes her perspective on herself and others
Thesis
Aldonza’s gentle heart is masked by her rough exterior, but when she meets Don Quixote his love for her allows her to see herself through his eyes. The years of her mistreatment are washed away by Don Quixote’s captive heart.
Argument 1
•...

Kyle McTiernan ` Midterm 10/13/11
Shakespeare 1503
Orsino and Romeo are two of the greatest and deepest characters of all of Shakespeare’s plays. Orsino appears in the play Twelfth Night. Orsino’s first love in the play is Olivia. Although he never really spoke to her to begin with, he instantly fell in love with her. Olivia and Orsino are both very self-indulgent and enjoy creating drama amongst themselves and their peers. Orsino is filled with...

Robert Kiely raises the question, in The Romantic Novel in England, Is there actually an English romantic novel? He skirts answering his own question by suggesting that some novels are influenced by Romanticism and incorporate the same style and themes that appear in Romantic poetry and drama. In his discussion, the term romantic novel is often equated with the romance, with the Gothic novel, and with the romantic elements in a novel. Kiely regards Wuthering Heights as a model of romantic...

During the Middle Ages, Courtly love was a code which prescribed the conduct between a lady and her lover (Britannica). The relationship of courtly love was very much like the feudal relationship between a knight and his liege. The lover serves his beloved, in the manner a servant would. He owes his devotion and allegiance to her, and she inspires him to perform noble acts of valor (Schwartz). Capellanus writes, in The Art of Courtly Love, “A true lover considers nothing good except what he...

Love and Romance
Romantic love can end in death, but love can be presented in such a manner that can be shown to be courageous and unconditional. Additionally, the so-called "romantic" comedies may feature a certain degree of tension between romantic and anti-romantic elements. Marriage—typically viewed as the goal of romantic love—is also treated ambiguously by Shakespeare. For example you have Edward and Bella from the Twilight Series, like Romeo and Juliet they both make stupid...

Love by definition is an emotion explored in philosophy, religion, and literature, often as either romantic love, the fraternal love of others, or the love of God based on the definition found in The Encarta Encyclopedia. As I explored the definition by means of the Internet, books, and articles I noticed the definitions changed quite a bit, but yet had the same basic understanding. The definition I found in The Encarta Encyclopedia was probably the most simple and most basic. It refers to...

COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE WITH THE PASSIONATE ASTRONAUT TO HIS LOVE BY GREG SMENDA.
The passion for romance is something for human beings for thousands and thousands of years has never been changed, they always willing to give the best they have to their love, in order to move their hearts immediately. Both of the poem of "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and "The Passionate Astronaut to His Love" are showing the addressers' patronal...

I choose to describe the putative relationship between Adam and Caroline in the movie "Untamed Heart". It starts off with Caroline in a just ending relationship where she is hung up on the guy that left her. Her friends call her on it and help her refrain from trying to repair it. This guy Adam is a hard working, quiet, shy, very shy especially around Caroline, because he has a serious infatuation about her. Every thing she does he studies. In the beginning of the movie it starts out that he has...

Venetian High Renaissance
Women’s role in the literary scene of the Venetian High Renaissance greatly erupted in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Women eventually became the most educated citizens in the city and were referred to as, “honest courtesans.” (Pg. 624) Our textbook outlines how women, “dominated” the literary scene with their fierce ability to be, “both sexual and intellectual.” (Pg. 624) Although there were many great poets of the Venetian High Renaissance, I will limit...

Jonathan Santos
Professor: Steven Bellavia
Introduction to Business and Technology
February 17, 2010
Case Study #2: Business Problem
Romantic Relationship Gone Sour, Affecting Productivity
Many people may think falling in love with a co-worker is an obvious side effect, since we spend most of our time at work. If the couple is in love and all is going well in the relationship, some may probably say that productivity may go up. Since there is no concrete evidence to back this...

Until death due us apart... Or money
Love and romance have been the inspiration for thousand of songs through history most of the hits at the billboards are love songs and the best well known actors earned their prestigious position thanks to love movies, romantic scenes or passion scandals.
L-O-V-E , four letters,2 people, obe life along with other values like respect, solidarity, honesty, patience, loyalty and friendship complemented with communication trust and most important : passion and...

English 1302
11/23/2010
Katt’s Soap Opera
Dear Katt,
It has been brought to my attention; that the past motion pictures you have acted in have not been as successful as we both thought. This in no way shape or form has any thing to do with your comic routines, as we both know they are a huge success and growing ever more popular day by day. The American public loves who you are, and what you stand for although my sources tell me that your acting needs some polishing up. This is...

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
Today people can observe that many students are entering this so called romantic relationship. On the other hand, the student is spending time with their potential lifelong partner, but on the other side, they are busy trying to fulfill other responsibilities, like maintaining grades, studying, and coping with everyday stress.
Social factors refer to the facts and experience that influence or control individuals’ personality, attitudes and...

How does Shakespeare portray love in the play ‘much a do about nothing?’
This topic covers about the way love is expressed in the play ‘much a do about nothing’. In the play, Shakespeare shows love in various ways. There were two main romances in the play that had very different qualities and different types or relationships and demeanours, so these two couples in the play have a contrast of how different their relationship’s are.
So the first main romance we see in the play is of course,...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale of what happens when people rush into relationships and act on lust and infatuation instead of love. In the beginning of the play, Romeo is completely in love with Rosaline and exaggerates his love when he says that no one can be more beautiful than she is(Shakespeare 1.2.90-95). Only a couple of hours after exclaiming how he could never love anyone other than Rosaline he meets Juliet and, after a few minutes, forgets about Rosaline and exclaims his love for...

Romeo and Juliet demonstrate a concise story of unconditional love. It is so unorthodox that you may ask is it really love or just sexually attracted. It happened so fast that the essence of true love was gone. They only know each other for less than a week, how could they state that they feel love? They are both young and immature to love. There is a strong opinion that the way they understand love is about sexual and shallow.
After the party where Romeo went back to see Juliet, they both...

Passage Analysis
In his intense novel Shane, Jack Schaefer surprises readers by introducing a subplot that revolves around the romantic feelings between the two characters, Shane and Marian. In chapter eight of the novel, Schaefer allows the chemistry to surface in an interaction that develops the character’s feelings and candor, contributes to the plot of the novel, and partially resolves the conflict of the subplot. The writer uses those purposes through his effective use of imagery,...

There are those rare texts that transcend their literary origins and become a part of our popular culture. Wuthering heights was written by Emily Bronte and published in 1847. She had 2 older sisters, which were also well know writers and her only brother. Wuthering height was Bronte’s first and only book before she died of Tuberculosis shortly after the book was written. Wuthering height is now considered to be a text that transcend down to each generation and is now considered a classic in...

﻿Anthony Ponders
Ms. Montalvo
English 7C
21 October 2013
Frankenstein Final Writing Assessment
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly is one of the finest expressions of a gothic novel and also fits many characteristics of a romantic novel. Gothic novels are the combination of horror and romance; also they question the mysterious, supernatural ways of science and nature. Romanticism is also seen throughout the novel. Romanticism allows this novel to be more linked to a gothic novel and to one of the...

Tanya Hopker 26 February 2004
Grade 10Q
Literature Essay
Section A: Number 1
Dramatic irony is used to create comedy in this play. Write an essay explaining the effectiveness of this literary device in the first Act of "Twelfth Night".
Twelfth Night
In the play "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare the playwright uses much dramatic irony. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something in the play that the characters themselves do not know, but act out. It is very effective in...

Ronil V. Matuguina August 16, 2010
Reaction Paper #2 IE
Theme:
Forever witches is a story that depicts “selfishness”
This simply shows that the main character in the story “Maring was actually a selfish person. This was proved in the part of the story where Mating uses voodoo doll on Julio, to make him love her madly. Maring wants to be the only woman Julio will ever look though Julio was tortured. Maring didn’t think about Julio, she loves only herself, because she...

“Jay Gatsby: the Romantic Hero”
Jack Gatz, better known as Jay Gatsby, is an idealistic dreamer who lives in the past, wishing for a relationship with the lovely Daisy Buchanan. He romanticizes the present, and cannot let go of events that occurred years ago. Though the world Gatsby is in moves rapidly around him, he is forever stuck in the haze of yesterday. He is a Romantic idealist living in the wrong time, and is therefore set up to fail due to forces he does not comprehend.
Gatsby is a...

The idea that Porphryo has the role of a seducer in ‘The Eve of Saint Agnes’ can be interpreted through many sections of the poem, predominantly through the lengths he’s seen to go to in order to win Madeline. After he enters the castle, Porphyro instantly emotionally blackmails the first person he meets, Angela, by soothing her “here in this armchair sit”, and then making her feel guilty with the line “believe me by these tears” , allowing him to win her over so that he can get shown the way to...

A love poem will not always be long and flowery. Sometimes what you need to say can be very short. In fact it may be the fact that the poem is short that makes it special. Its short length may show that you put the time and effort in to make every word count. You considered carefully every word choice. Every word choice has a reason behind it. A short poem can be the ultimate act of romance when it is given the time and effort that it deserve.
When i first looked into your eyes, i became weak...

﻿Chiderah Onyeukwu
Professor Daniel Galvin
English 213
4 April 2013
Explication Outline
I will be doing my explication on The Importance of Being Earnest. One major theme of The Importance of Being Earnest is the nature of marriage, and in my opinion this theme is the overriding theme of the play. Throughout the play the question of whether marriage as an institution is “pleasant” or “unpleasant” comes up repeatedly. According to Algernon, one of the two main characters in the play, marriage as...

A Deeper Look into William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare’s play, Twelfth Night, is an early resemblance of this day’s in age, Harry Potter or Forrest Gump. Twelfth Night is an extravagant, yet extremely unlikely tale, that keeps the audience drawn in with real life fantasies, odd love analogies, and the main character’s struggle, along her pursuit of happiness. When Shakespeare wrote this play he wanted to write a complicated love story with comedy in it that, beneath the...

Turgenev's Fathers and Sons is held as a beacon of defining nihilism in 19th Century Russia. However, despite the novel's political and social backdrop, the primary focus of the text is on the subtlety of an unhappy love story. This is most clearly demonstrated by the contrast of romantic pairs vis-à-vis the predominant characters. Bazarov and Odintsova are contrasted with Arkady and Katya. This comparison extends further to the secondary characters of Pavel and his failed romance, and Arkady's...

Gatsby’s Obituary
Jay Gatsby was a beloved son and friend. He had been through a lot while he lived. Gatsby had served in the war. He had become a captain before he went to the front. He then got his majority and the command of the divisional machine guns following the Argonne battles. Before going to war he came from unsuccessful farmer parents. He tought he could better himself so he left his family. Gatsby had also met the love of his life, Daisy before the war. For five years his only...

﻿Group One, Question One
In the show New Girl we see different barriers to listening, three of those barriers are Noise, Pseudolistening, and Competitive interrupting.
The first barrier is Noise, which is seen at the very beginning as the show is starting. Noise refers to anything that distracts you from listening to what you wish to listen to. (pg. 229) Nick and Jess are standing in front of their apartment door discussing their new profound romantic relationship and how they are going to...

Explore how Shakespeare and Orwell present forbidden love in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘1984’.
Introduction
What is love? What are the main similarities and differences between the presentation of forbidden love in 1984 and Romeo and Juliet? Relate briefly to the contexts of both texts.
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Why does Romeo love Juliet? Why does Winston love Julia?
Look at how Romeo is attracted to Juliet for being beautiful and compare it to how Winston loves Julia for her lack of purity. Explore this...

1. Opening Scene
General Vision and Viewpoint:
The serious and heavy opening music suggests that the events of the film are serious, that serious issues are at stake. In the opening narration freedom is seen as desirable, and the “Americas” seen as somewhere it can be found, a desirable destination for those who wish to escape. The footage of the fleeing refugees elicits our sympathy for them – the innocent victims of the war. After the French Resistance agent is shot the camera points...

﻿BEASTLY
“Beastly” the book by Alex Flinn is a remake of Beauty and the Beast and it’s about a guy who’s all about the looks, he’s extremely cocky and doesn’t care about anyone but himself. His name was Kyle, Kyle Kingston, his dad was rarely around and to make it up to Kyle he bought him stuff. Now Kyle was rich (another reason why he’s cocky) and got whatever he wanted and whatever girl he wanted too. Homecoming was coming up and he had a date but ask Kendra- a dark mysterious girl- to go...

In medieval times people lived by the medieval code of chivalry which is usually associated with ideals of knightly virtues, honor and courtly love. In a knights code of chivalry a knight was expected to have strength and skills to fight but also was expected to be kind. In the rules of courtly love it describes the pure romance of love but also the love for another man’s wife. In the movie the first knight, Lancelot displays the ideals of medieval chivalry and courtly love in admirable ways but...

Shakespeare utilizes disguise as the primary source of theatrical appeal in his play Twelfth Night. It is particularly common in Comedy, for various reasons. With disguise, you get confusion, mistaken identities, and with these, you get laughter. On the Elizabethan stage, playwrights frequently included disguise, or deception, in their comedies, using it as a comedic device. In Twelfth Night, it is the characters abilities to utilize disguises to deceive one another or themselves. This is...